Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: Drop partitions.yaml

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

On 21/01/2026 at 21:18:58 GMT, Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 01:56:39PM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
>> The partitions.yaml schema is an unusual structure in that it includes
>> all possible partition types, and it disables the normal matching by
>> compatible strings. As partitions.yaml has nothing to match on, it is
>> only applied when explicitly referenced. The use of "oneOf" also results
>> in misleading warnings which are difficult to understand. Drop
>> partitions.yaml and rely on the standard compatible matching instead.
>> 
>> The "mmc-card" case previously allowed any partition type, but now only
>> allows "fixed-partitions". There aren't any users and the original
>> intent appeared to be only for "fixed-partitions".
>
> It would actually be great to also allow 'gpt-partitions' as compatible
> type with #address-cells = <0> and #size-cells = <0> and allow matching
> on partition UUID, name or index. This has previously been discussed and
> would avoid having to extract MAC addresses and WiFi EEPROM data in
> userspace on many devices which rely on such conventions.

Out of curiosity, why not exposing this data through an NVMEM cell
instead? Anyway, this (re?)addition can probably be part of a follow-up
series and is almost orthogonal to this cleanup IMO.

Thanks,
Miquèl